From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
To: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] liveupdate: validate session type before performing operation
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 14:11:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <agxuNavjtB8T_xRO@plex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260519122428.2378446-1-pratyush@kernel.org>
On 05-19 14:24, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> From: "Pratyush Yadav (Google)" <pratyush@kernel.org>
>
> The sessions ioctls are not applicable to all session types. PRESERVE_FD
> is only applicable to outgoing sessions. RETRIEVE_FD and FINISH are only
> valid for incoming session. Calling a incoming ioctl on an outgoing
> session is invalid and can cause file handlers to run into unexpected
> errors.
>
> For example, a user can create a (outgoing) session, preserve a memfd,
> and then immediately do a retrieve without doing a kexec in between.
Please add a self-test tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
to verify that outgoing sessions do not accept retrieve_fd ioctl.
Option, you could also add to luo_multi_session.c a test to verifying
that incoming does not accept preserve_fd
> This would result in memfd's retrieve handler to run. The handlers
> expects to be called from a post-kexec context, and will try to do a
> kho_restore_vmalloc() or kho_restore_folio() to try and restore memory.
>
> KHO catches this (thanks to KHO_PAGE_MAGIC) and returns an error, but
> since this is considered an internal error and KHO throws out a bunch of
> WARN()s.
>
> Associate a type with each ioctl op and validate the type in
> luo_session_ioctl() before dispatching the ioctl handler to make sure
> the op is being called for the right session type.
>
> Fixes: 16cec0d26521 ("liveupdate: luo_session: add ioctls for file preservation")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Notes:
> I added LUO_IOCTL_ALL but there is no user in this patch. The type is
> for LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME which is supported for both session
> types. The support for GET_NAME is in next and this patch should go
> through fixes.
>
> Alternatively, we can remove LUO_IOCTL_ALL from this patch and add it to
> the LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME patch in next. But that would need us to
> rebase to an rc that contains this fix.
Let's keep LUO_IOCTL_ALL change in this patch.
Please add tests, otherwise LGTM.
Pasha
>
> kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
> index a3327a28fc1f..e84218e3cacb 100644
> --- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
> +++ b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
> @@ -295,32 +295,58 @@ union ucmd_buffer {
> struct liveupdate_session_retrieve_fd retrieve;
> };
>
> +/* Type of sessions the ioctl applies to. */
> +enum luo_ioctl_type {
> + LUO_IOCTL_INCOMING,
> + LUO_IOCTL_OUTGOING,
> + LUO_IOCTL_ALL,
> +};
> +
> struct luo_ioctl_op {
> unsigned int size;
> unsigned int min_size;
> unsigned int ioctl_num;
> + enum luo_ioctl_type type;
> int (*execute)(struct luo_session *session, struct luo_ucmd *ucmd);
> };
>
> -#define IOCTL_OP(_ioctl, _fn, _struct, _last) \
> +#define IOCTL_OP(_ioctl, _fn, _struct, _last, _type) \
> [_IOC_NR(_ioctl) - LIVEUPDATE_CMD_SESSION_BASE] = { \
> .size = sizeof(_struct) + \
> BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(sizeof(union ucmd_buffer) < \
> sizeof(_struct)), \
> .min_size = offsetofend(_struct, _last), \
> .ioctl_num = _ioctl, \
> + .type = _type, \
> .execute = _fn, \
> }
>
> static const struct luo_ioctl_op luo_session_ioctl_ops[] = {
> IOCTL_OP(LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_FINISH, luo_session_finish,
> - struct liveupdate_session_finish, reserved),
> + struct liveupdate_session_finish, reserved, LUO_IOCTL_INCOMING),
> IOCTL_OP(LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_PRESERVE_FD, luo_session_preserve_fd,
> - struct liveupdate_session_preserve_fd, token),
> + struct liveupdate_session_preserve_fd, token, LUO_IOCTL_OUTGOING),
> IOCTL_OP(LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_RETRIEVE_FD, luo_session_retrieve_fd,
> - struct liveupdate_session_retrieve_fd, token),
> + struct liveupdate_session_retrieve_fd, token, LUO_IOCTL_INCOMING),
> };
>
> +static bool luo_ioctl_type_valid(struct luo_session *session,
> + const struct luo_ioctl_op *op)
> +{
> + switch (op->type) {
> + case LUO_IOCTL_INCOMING:
> + /* Retrieved is only set on incoming sessions */
> + return session->retrieved;
> + case LUO_IOCTL_OUTGOING:
> + return !session->retrieved;
> + case LUO_IOCTL_ALL:
> + return true;
> + }
> +
> + /* Catch-all. */
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> static long luo_session_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned int cmd,
> unsigned long arg)
> {
> @@ -345,6 +371,8 @@ static long luo_session_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned int cmd,
> op = &luo_session_ioctl_ops[nr - LIVEUPDATE_CMD_SESSION_BASE];
> if (op->ioctl_num != cmd)
> return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
> + if (!luo_ioctl_type_valid(session, op))
> + return -EINVAL;
> if (ucmd.user_size < op->min_size)
> return -EINVAL;
>
>
> base-commit: b1378127003b61930ce30064328640503ad3ef6d
> --
> 2.54.0.563.g4f69b47b94-goog
>
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2026-05-19 12:24 [PATCH] liveupdate: validate session type before performing operation Pratyush Yadav
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